Kazuo Ishiguro’s, The Buried Giant (Random House, 2015) is a tale signifying something, but the critics aren’t sure what.   Jon Ronson of the New York Times (Click) calls it a fantasy or a story akin to allegory.  Tim Holland of The Guardian attempts to cover all the basis, lin

This morning a notice from Amazon popped up on my screen. The message said a customer had liked my review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Buried Giant  but made no mention of whether or not he or she actually bought the book. (Blog 5/5/15)  Next I was reminded I’d written 13 reviews on Amaz

I received a lovely rejection letter the other day for one of my weird parables.  The editor hadn’t a clue about what I was doing but wanted to help, perhaps seeing a glimmer of  talent.  He made suggestions entirely inappropriate to the genre I was inventing but which, I suspect

In 2014, I wrote about the Intentional Fallacy, a term of literary criticism. (6/5/14)   The theory states that to understand a work of art, nothing is relevant except the piece itself.  Knowledge of the artist’s childhood or what he or she ate for breakfast has no bearing on int